Yes, if we want our country to continue moving forward.

Public schools are very much necessary for a society to grow and develop. Education is a huge factor in how a society grows. Without education of the general populace, we would be nowhere. People say that a public school isn't necessary because they are not educating children to the fullest, or because private schooling would be better, but what about the thousands, if not millions that cannot afford a private school? Should they be left with no formal education? How would that help our society?

Knowledge is power.

Yes, public schooling is very important for the youth of America and the rest of the world. Above and beyond preparing our youth for the workforce, public schooling helps promote creativity, individualism, and the importance of building healthy relationships with friends, family, and colleagues. Furthermore, it keeps our kids off he streets.

Of Course!

Public schools are necessary for both educational and economical purposes. Public education is considered a right in this country, not a privilege. If public schools disappeared, the discrepancies between higher earners and lower earners would not only increase ten-fold, but the welfare of the country would go down the drain. Public schools are a must.

Yes, education is a public good.

Because education is a public good it cannot be adequately provided by private market forces. There is not enough economic, read profit, incentive for companies to invest in education for all. Removing public schools would cause the income and inequality gap to rise in this country to a point where society cannot function.

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Of Course! Public schools are necessary for both educational and economical purposes. Public education is considered a right in this country, not a privilege. If public schools disappeared, the discrepancies between higher earners and lower earners would not only increase ten-fold, but the welfare of the country would go down the drain. Public schools are a must.

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Of Course! Public schools are necessary for both educational and economical purposes. Public education is considered a right in this country, not a privilege. If public schools disappeared, the discrepancies between higher earners and lower earners would not only increase ten-fold, but the welfare of the country would go down the drain. Public schools are a must.

One of the most basic assets of a fair society.

I work in a public school in a low-income area, and our education system is thoroughly dysfunctional. No doubt about it. But privatization is most certainly not the answer.

I've seen firsthand countless parents who send their children to my school simply because they can't afford an alternative, financial aid or not. I've also seen those who pull their children out to isolate them from "riff raff" or "the wrong sort of people" (those being direct quotes). I can assure you that many, if not most people, would be excluded from a fully privatized system, because that is inherently the nature of such a system in this country. The privileged will never be at ease with their children receiving the same education as the unwashed masses.

That's not to say private education is better. More often than not, it's worse. Despite conservative, free market rhetoric, my private school-counterpart makes roughly two thirds of my salary, and has no greater motivation to excel at his job than that which every educator should ideally have, a love of educating. The myth of private education relies on appealing to people's prejudices about status, money, and class, and how these things correlate to quality. A fallacious assumption, and covertly oppressive at that.

Taking away the right to basic knowledge and skills cannot be construed as a positive change. Public education is just about the only thing that prevents our country from becoming a place where money determines opportunity, though sadly we've already gone down that road quite a bit. Let's not make it worse, folks.

It is not necessary

Necessary for what? It is not necessary for life, love, & happiness. This question is to ambiguous. It is not necessary to learn. One can easily go to a library and learn as much as someone who had formal schooling. A better question is if it benefits society or not. An even better question than that is if there are any other alternatives in teaching children other than public school.

It is unnesacry

These days you can just look up what the school teaches on the Internet. Or you can just go to the library. Besides, the stuff you learn in grades 8-12 do not even help you in real life. The pubic school system is basically mandatory daycare. The worst is if you a job other than flipping burgers at McDonald's, well lucky you, you have to go to colloge.

Creative and Free Knowledge is Power.

What is "Knowledge" and how do you get it. What do you really KNOW? Knowledge: 1. Facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject 2. Awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation.* What do you know and what do you believe? You only know what you experience. Experience and experiment are the only way to obtain true "knowledge". Then what is education? Education: 1. The process of receiving or giving systematic INSTRUCTION 2. An enlightening experience.* (emphasis added) Education should be either guidance to an experience or the genuine experience. So where do we get this "instruction"? Anywhere and everywhere! With the endless FREE availability of information and instruction we have with the internet today, there is not as much of a need (or blessing) in public education. Many even say that public education chokes the creativity and freedom in order to gain true independent knowledge that we can and WANT to use in our daily lives. It is also my opinion that the best education is VOLUNTARY. We should learn about what interests us, at any point in our lives. So education should only be encouraged, not forced, to promote true knowledge and a thirst for it. That is why it is my opinion that public education is not needed and even harmful to many trapped in its system.

Public schools are expensive to the taxpayer and primarily serve as state-sponsored daycare.

There is nothing taught in public schools today that cannot be learned in a public library or on the Internet. In early childhood education, even public school teachers will encourage parents to read to their children. Why? Because it is the most effective way for children to learn to read, through practice. We are still using a 19th century system as public ed.

Fuck public school

They are full of shit head bullies and abusive teachers that will challenge the kids WAY too much. Don't believe me? Look on the internet at the kids that get abused by teachers and are crying because they have too much homework and are being abused by other kids as well.

Well not necessarily

Children can still get an education, there are private schools to attend. People will be able to afford those private schools with all the taxpayer dollars they save from not having public schools anymore. Public schools are not necessary because there are other alternatives to get an education and learn.

The cost of education

Don't get me wrong, I sincerely believe that schooling is extremely important. However, I am not inclined to believe that public schools are necessary in order to make schooling more widely available. All public schools do, is crowd out the private market (90% of children are enrolled in public school), and create more overhead by passing the cost onto the taxpayer, thus increasing the cost of education (similar to what Obamacare is doing to the cost of healthcare). Bear in mind, even with public schools in place, we still have high-end private schools in which 36% of the students receive need-based financial assistance. Just imagine how much this number would rise if not for public schools. There is no doubt in my mind that without public schooling, education would become less expensive, yet remain just as widely available as it is currently, and with a profit motive, the quality of education will increase as well.